All in all you're just another vote in the POLL! The Pink Floyd ballot poll thread (ILM Artist Poll Thread #49) - VOTING CLOSED

There's nothing ironic about "herro"

I've also never heard The Final Cut but I am listening right now for the first time. I HAVE heard both Radio KAOS and The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, wtf is wrong with me

are we counting "Us & Them" and "The Piano Sequence" / whatever else it's been called on bootlegs together? it helps that it was labeled as "Us & Them (Rick Wright piano demo)" on the Immersion box. so I hope so! o/w I will vote for both.

waters is the kind of lifelong socialist who also supports the countryside alliance

or the kind of lifelong arsenal supporter who still puts 'you'll never walk alone' on Fearless

^gets it

Kinda assumed this would be the default position of Floyd fans actually, I mean roger waters has written at least two concept albums about what a cunt roger waters is (but he didn't have a dad u see) I'd have thought it uncontroversial to agree w him

Hard to comment on this without knowing what exceptions you have in mind (Comfortably Numb?) but Gilmour is a GREAT guitarist with never a dullsville moment imo

"Comfortably Numb" is definitely one exception, as is "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2." My favorite Gilmour playing is on Ummagumma (the live disc), Saucerful, and the Pompeii "Echoes." As for post-DSOTM, his playing on WYWH and Animals really drags those records down for me; he seems bereft of ideas, and never ventures beyond his comfort zone.

Don't think Waters-era Floyd were ever the go-to band for instrumental risk-taking but that is no kind of argument against them imo, they had other compensating factors imo

Yeah, I could definitely see that. I should note that I don't hate post-DSOTM Floyd, and that I'll still defend The Final Cut, but it's frustrating that they never again tried to exploit their more risk-taking strengths as musicians (although, they really seemed to loosen up live, cf. Oakland '77). It's not that I think Waters-era Floyd is bad, just that it could've been better.

From Waters' last facebook post:

I give heartfelt thanks, to those of you who chose to go online and stand with me, in declaring their opposition to colonialism, occupation, racism, dogma, bigotry and narrow national self-interest, in favor instead, of internationalism, self determination, truth, reason, justice, understanding, discourse, liberty, peace and love.

Well they disowned most of their early funny stuff as floundering frippery didn't they? Xp

Lol ok "racism: I'm dead against it, peace and love peace and love" case closed

Did they? I honestly don't know, although I thought they all at least really dug what they'd done with Syd.

(xp)

Like his "anguished" bellow is the terriblest most ridiculous sound in music

Haha, I was searching for a Roger Waters solo cut to put in at No. 20. I can't remember which song it was, but there's some song out there off of P&CoH or KAOS where it segues seamlessly from one of those EEE-YAAAESSSAAAWWWWWW! into a David Sanborn saxophone solo.

Ummagumma & atom heart especially iirc, but they definitely used to claim that post-syd pre-moon they hadn't found their direction. Gilmour returned to atom heart tho so he obv changed his mind xp

I remember hearing a radio interview with Waters in which he dismissed Atom Heart Mother as "rubbish", and of course the Waters-era band never (or hardly ever?) played anything pre-Dark Side, although the Gilmour-led version of the band played "Astronomy Domine" in 1994.

Sanborn is on hitchhiker, with clapton & kamen - the lethal weapon dream team! Xp

how did I not know about this

19367 Pink Floyd is an asteroid that has been named in honour of the English musical group Pink Floyd. It was discovered on December 3, 1997. It is in a 3.82-year elliptical orbit around the sun. Its previous perihelion passage occurred on December 23, 2004 at 9h00 UT.

There is little information on the physical properties of 19367 Pink Floyd. Its diameter remains uncertain; range of 3 to 6 km is probable.

19367 Pink Floyd's maximum brightness is estimated to be 1/14958 of the brightness of the faintest objects that can be seen with the human eye

Haha they hated being called "space rock" now a space rock is named after them

It's too bad Waters wasn't more keen on those records, although he did play "Set The Controls" on his solo tours.

and of course the Waters-era band never (or hardly ever?) played anything pre-Dark Side

They did "One of These Days" on their '74 tours, "Echoes" on their '74 and '75 tours, and CWTAE once in '77. That's pretty much it.

Ah ok, thanks. He played "If" on the Radio KAOS tour as well.

one thing all this Floyd listening these last two weeks has brought out is that I am a massive Rick Wright fan

Gilmour was playing "Wots... Uh The Deal," "Fat Old Sun," and "Echoes" on the On An Island tour.

Twelve hours and 10 minutes left to send your ballot in

when does rollout start?

oof, I thought it was end of day tomorrow. in that case let me ask again:

are we counting "Us & Them" and "The Piano Sequence" / whatever else it's been called on bootlegs together? it helps that it was labeled as "Us & Them (Rick Wright piano demo)" on the Immersion box. so I hope so! o/w I will vote for both.

me too, midnight dates always confuse me

when does rollout start?

The bonus polls (bootlegs, solo, Syd) will roll out tomorrow and then I'll just start working through them. Ballots are pretty diverse so it'll probably be the top 50 tracks

are we counting "Us & Them" and "The Piano Sequence" / whatever else it's been called on bootlegs together? it helps that it was labeled as "Us & Them (Rick Wright piano demo)" on the Immersion box. so I hope so! o/w I will vote for both.

I'm counting them together.

can we count all of pink floyd as one song y/n

where it segues seamlessly from one of those EEE-YAAAESSSAAAWWWWWW! into a David Sanborn saxophone solo.

I was mistaken, by the way. The anguished segue happens on The Gunner's Dream. So no Sanborn.

Dude, that's a great moment on that song.

"the gunner's dream" is badass as hell, nearly on my ballot

haha the bit I quoted is on that song too

btw i'm gonna name my next cat 'dick parry'

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this is my favourite post itt

voted!

38 ballots, 114 tracks with votes

Elvis, do you want me to change the thread title to reflect that the poll is closing tonight?

Yes please!

ballot sent! my first ilx poll!

lol @ pink floyd's 'related artists' in spotify

Sent! I just listened to the stuff I had laying around. I was able to observe how kinda sorta throwaway soundtrack stuff (Nile Song, Ibiza Bar) would be foundation material for another band's legend.

46 ballots in. They all RULE (seriously!)

wow it's gonna be a real party!

we'll need to dust off the oil slide projector

I had one of those as a kid! A toy version of a psychedelic oil slide projector. The slides were little disks that worked like a lava lamp using heat from the projector's light bulb. I didn't quite understand yet what it was supposed to be used for, and accidentally sat on and broke one of the slides which left a stain on the sofa that remained for the next 15 years.

47th ballot just sent!

I always end up waiting until the last moment in these polls and quickly put something together, obviously completely forgetting about many great songs. Anyway, I voted at least.

feel like at this point I can admit that much as I wanted to I couldn't deny brick pt2 a spot on my ballot. great solo plus there was real wtfness in the floyd dropping a surprise disco track even if it was a bit plodding.

It's hard to convey how pervasive disco was in the late '70s, so much so that everyone from the Stones to Barry Manilow to the Beach Boys to KISS felt they had to dip their toes in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enzNePWJvI4